 Hi, I'm Emily West. I teach in the Department of Film and Media here at UC Berkeley. Hi, I'm Darren Zook. I teach in the Department of Global Studies and the Department of Political Science. Hey, I'm 12 years old. Hi, I primarily teach day to eight and today I'm going to be reading Reviews from Rate My Professor. This class was not for my major, but it was definitely the class I looked forward to. I love this class and the professor. Emily is really nice and she cares about her students a lot. She is not a tough grader as long as you do what she was asking for. Correct. Yes. First up, Prof Zook has been one of my favorite profs at Cal. Oh, that's very sweet. He is engaged and loves the course material, which makes you love it. Lectures are interesting and informative. I had no interest in Southeast Asia prior to this course and now I'm going there after graduation. It's pretty amazing. I had no idea that people said such nice things. It always really is kind of fun when people take a class and they end up actually bringing it to life by traveling wherever it is I'm lecturing about. So, yay, glad to hear it. Very planned lecture stuff. It was hard for me to stay focused when he himself seems so disinterested in the lectures. Also often rush through important concepts to make up for his low pace. Yeah, this is from 2020 and that makes sense. I was still working on it in my first semester. Sorry to kid my first semester teaching, but I can't really argue with that. This is kind of funny. So, apparently this one might have a new name. It says the Zookster. I like that. I like that. I'll go with Zookster. I may have to turn this into an email address or something. The Zookster is one of a kind. Without a doubt one of the funniest and most enjoyable professors I've ever had. So nice. Lectures were just as fun and engaging as they were informative. If you show up to lecture, keep up with the readings and put effort in your essays, there's an A waiting for you. Only downside is he wasn't very available for office hours. Wow, that's actually a very... kind of review. It's nice to know that there's good buzz out there. I loved Professor West. She explained in a way that really allowed me to expand my way of looking at things and developed my critical thinking way beyond what I thought was possible in the semester. It was difficult to improve on writing skills because we turned in papers every week and received very little feedback on them until after the semester. True story. When people are writing a lot, it is really hard to keep up with that much feedback. It's really true. Hadam for this semester was very helpful in answering questions during lecture as he went along and the demos were great. Super chill and very understanding. He liked reading Conjunction with David Wagner for the semester. Great product for a great subject. Thanks. Appreciate it. That was one of my early semesters so I'm not surprised I got a great reading there. Good to see you. Zoka's the pop music of UC Berkeley lectures. I think I'm actually the K-pop. Staying corrected. Though engaging his class is extremely easy. This may be great for those taking a breath class. You should always take a breath class because if you don't you will suffocate. Anyway, people who prefer to spend college partying on Wednesday nights. This is interesting. But for a person serious about global studies not so much. At times Zook seemed more worried about him using his students than teaching. I'm always worried about him using my students. Nothing wrong with that. But also I think it was with teaching. Okay, well point well taken but I'm glad you took my class and I hope you are continuing to breathe. Literally the best phone professor I've ever had at Berkeley definitely take her classes because lectures are so much fun and the work is very manageable. Professor Jess truly cares for her students and prepares us for rigorous film writing. That's a really nice one too. Yes, please take my classes. Come and visit me. There is so little transparency about grades as we should mark five times. Why? It's so annoying and stressful. You should really release info about bins and grades at least at the end of the semester. Well I was just following the policies that were told to me. But we have started doing as of this most recent semester. So if you take data in the future you will get great bins. This is August 2015. Best part, no tests. What class did you try? I have tests. Just two midterm essays and a final essay. That's right, at the time I was only doing essays. That's true. Professor Zook is like a fun uncle who tells terrible, amazing dad jokes. It's terrible slash amazing so I think that's multiple choice and so all is sort of amazing. This lecture is never dull and they are incredibly straightforward not to mention very interesting it is possible for anyone to do well and enjoy this class. I agree it is possible for anyone to do well. All you have to do is be engaged. So thank you for that. And that will be it for this episode. Coming soon to Netflix, Professor Zook meets his reviews from Rate My Professor. So long. So that was me reading some ratings and reviews from Rate My Professor. Thanks for watching. That was my Rate My Professor reviews. Thanks for watching.